Innholdsfortegnelse for June 2015 i ELLE

In the Entourage movie, loosely based on executive producer Mark Wahlberg’s early Hollywood days, Adrian Grenier (right) and his HBO show bros are joined by so many fellow famous people that “spot the cameo” could be a drinking game. June 5 June 2 Indie rock’s romance with the ’90s heats up in Before the World Was Big, the debut album from Girlpool, a duo with a spare, ferce Gen X sound. June 2 Are you there, God? Judy Blume’s adult-oriented novel In the Unlikely Event is based on a series of real-life airplane crashes that took place over her New Jersey hometown in the ’50s. June 5 Organic Matters, at DC’s National Museum of Women in the Arts, redefnes the relationship between female artists and nature. Don’t expect staid landscapes…

YOUR COACH OF THE MONTH BEST YEAR EVER! “I’ve been very lucky to work for extremely successful small businesses,” says Laura Cattano of her previous employers. “I’ve kept my eyes open with every job I’ve ever had.” Considering that she’s now a New York–based organizational designer who recently overhauled Lena Dunham’s Brooklyn home (the star’s pad now looks less Hannah Horvath and more The Coveteur), the policy has clearly served her well. In 1999, Cattano, a Long Island–born environmental science major, moved to New York City and took an entry-level position at the well-respected Vicente Wolf interior-design firm, where she turned heads with her acute attention to detail. Wolf himself was so impressed that he had her organize the office (and his personal photography collection). Bringing the same dedication to…

Money. Like it or not, no other factor so strongly drives our lives, hopes, dreams, and—as this hot-off-thepresses survey of American women and men found— our stress as does cold hard cash. For many, the anxiety that surrounds money stems from not having enough. But once you get some, the stress doesn’t stop: Women of all ages, education, and income levels report money as a top worry. Because really, money decides how we live—how well or how poorly. It influences our health, how we raise our kids, help our aging parents, and whether we can afford to expand our own horizons. So why is it so hard for us—especially those of us with a decent and steady paycheck— to talk finances? “I find it fascinating that the more money you…

“Hey, it’s a pleasure to meet you,” says Chris Pratt, standing 6’2” tall and half-naked, shaking your hand. Politely, he asks, “Would you like me to put a shirt on?” Is this a trick question? You arrived at the Hollywood Loft studio photo shoot and saw him approaching through the streaming sunlight, backlit like a god—make that a Star-Lord—his Marvel-hero thighs flexing beneath tight tan jeans, his brassbuckled belt aglow, his scuffed, squaretoed cowboy boots kicking dust motes into the air. You didn’t see the massive, muscled shoulders; smooth, polished chest; articulated, smiling pecs; fourand-a-half-pack abs.… And you still don’t see any of this, because you, my friend, are on a serious assignment. You are the Christiane Amanpour of celebrity journalism. “He looks like your friend’s hot brother when you…

There’s an engagement ring for every style and budget at ELLE.com/affordable-finery.…

Healthy-Looking Hair These are the high-tech, science-backed essentials guaranteed to give your hair everything it needs—from moisture to shine, strength and more. Read on to find how they will transform your hair. PROTEIN CARE ACTIVES Protein care actives are a blend of ingredients that penetrate the hair fiber to help reinforce its natural protein-based structure. The benefit: stronger, healthier, shinier strands. “Over time, hair becomes damaged— from styling and chemical processes— and because it’s unable to repair itself, you need to strengthen its protein structure from the outside in,” explains Diane Minar, senior scientist with Nexxus New York Salon Care. GLYCERIN “Glycerin is a natural hydrator that penetrates the hair shaft to soften and moisturize strands,” says Kevin Mancuso, creative director at Nexxus New York Salon Care. “Adding hydrating glycerin…

[DIRECTOR’S SPOTLIGHT] After serving as a major creative force behind the fabled Larry Sanders Show in the 1990s and then writing the animated 2009 hit Monsters vs. Aliens, Maya Forbes had another story to tell—her own. Hailing from a mixed-race family with a Boston Brahmin father beset by severe manic-depressive disorder, Forbes had a lot of baggage to unpack. She does so with surpassing grace in Infinitely Polar Bear, starring Mark Ruffalo in perhaps the juiciest role of his career so far, Zoe Saldana as a mother with an instinct for saving her family by leaving it, and two girls who give remarkably honest, emotionally charged performances as the stubbornly self-protective daughters of this mismatched pair. While struggling to line up funding for her indie effort, Forbes at least had…

[NONFICTION] Someone once asked me what I thought about “lean-in feminism.” I told her that it was meant for wealthy women, not for women like me. Work, as I’ve always understood it, isn’t a gentle, swaying sort of thing. It’s not full of opportunities for musing on work/life-balance. It’s where you go, when they let you, to make whatever money they’ll give you in exchange for your labor. So I was hooked from the third paragraph of Under the Bus: How Working Women Are Being Run Over. But you only have to wait for the eighth paragraph to get to Caroline Fredrickson’s salvo: “‘Opting out’ or ‘leaning in.’ These seem to be the only two options now under discussion for women in America, as pronounced by former high-level State Department…

[FICTION] Fifteen ELLE readers choose their favorite among three promising new books—this month, true tales about the complicated, at times crucial bonds between humans and animals 1 NO BETTER FRIEND ROBERT WEINTRAUB (LITTLE, BROWN) We may have a best-seller on our hands with this carefully reported saga about british POw Frank williams and his canine companion, a pointer named Judy. Together they survived three years of grueling, abusive imprisonment by Japanese forces during world war II. The narrative of their survival thoroughly won over both readers who ordinarily shun animal stories and those who generally prefer to avoid reading books about war. 2 LAST CHANCE MUSTANG MITCHELL BORNSTEIN (ST. MARTIN’S) Samson is a wild mustang whose botched domestication has rendered him unpredictable, violent, and dangerous. But lawyer and horse whisperer…

CLEAN While crashing in last night’s liner might seem rock ’n’ roll, musicians need to lift stage makeup (plus perspiration) or risk breakouts. Harold Lancer, MD, who counts Beyoncé, Katy Perry, and JLo as patients, advises adding a gentle exfoliant, like his Polish Blemish Control, into a double-cleanse regimen. PROTECT Megawatt stadium lights are so strong that stars risk heat and light damage—even performing indoors—without a broad-spectrum block. When onstage, “musicians have to wear sunscreen even at night,” says Lancer, who suggests noncomedogenic Neutrogena Ultra Sheer Dry-Touch Sunscreen SPF 45. PREVENT How to combat smoky tour buses and sleep deprivation? A topical antioxidant, such as Dr. Brandt XYY Face Cream, wards off environmental aggressors and prevents the breakdown of collagen.…

“I was on a music video for some random rapper, and the record executive brought this adorable girl over to me,” says hairstylist Tippi Shorter of meeting her first music-star client 10 years ago. Two weeks later, Shorter was styling Rihanna’s “Pon de Replay”-era island waves for the Barbadian beauty’s debut album cover. Soon after, Shorter hit the road with the then 17-year-old singer for an international press tour. As Aveda’s global artistic director for textured hair, Shorter specializes in the kind of springy, au naturel curls that elevate an artist’s look from upand-comer to icon. A secret weapon for performers, Shorter counts Alicia Keys, Jennifer Hudson, and Kelly Rowland as clients. What’s the secret to full, naturallooking waves and ringlets? For loose, bouncy curls, I blow-dry and go in…

“Are you still going to be attracted to me after I do this?” Katie, my wife, asks one night, puncturing the postcoital silence with my least favorite question. “This” was the breast reduction I kept hoping she’d forget all about, the way she’d forgotten about wanting to relocate our family from Brooklyn to rural Costa Rica, or like she’d forgotten about opening a trendy housewares outlet called The Jesus Christ Superstore, or like she’d wisely forgotten about naming our son her invented name, Ajoa. But “this,” I discovered unhappily, was a stickier aspiration, something that she’d apparently wanted to do since she was in college, though I didn’t find out about it until after we’d been married. It wasn’t the first time she’d asked the question. The moment we decided…

I’ve always loved poetry and used to write a lot of poetry when I was young, so it was exciting to write a poem that would be heard by millions. I’ve been especially touched to learn that a few couples have used Carrie’s poem in their own weddings. First, the toast, in full: “The Chicken Dance,” which is the first episode I wrote for Sex and the City, reflected something I’d just gone through. A male friend and his girlfriend house-sat for me one weekend in the house I’d bought myself, and they ended up getting engaged there. (Thus the line, said by me at their wedding, then by Miranda: “Everyone says that as soon as you get a place of your own, someone will propose— I thought it would…

Florence Welch—she of the unmistakable flame-red hair and hurricane-force voice who is, together with a rotating cast of backing musicians, also known as Florence + the Machine—is a woman utterly consumed by the music she makes. You can see it in her performances: the way she moves convulsively to the upswell of sound, the way she belts and bellows to the heavens. She writes songs you can feel in your bones. And like Kate Bush and Björk before her, Welch is an artist in the truest sense: a renegade dreamer who can knock out two platinum albums (2009’s Lungs and 2011’s Ceremonials), garner a trio of Grammy nominations, tour with U2, perform at Blake Lively’s wedding, be cited as an influence by Beyoncé, and still be perceived as a bit…

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JUNE 1 Where the Magic Happens Cattano serves up expert solutions to bedroom decor woes so that you can focus on dreamier pursuits. JUNE 8 The Top Shelf These four tips will clear clutter in the bathroom and streamline your time by the sink. Start here: once-aweek face masks up high, everyday cleansers down low. JUNE 15 Take the Heat Make kitchen life sweeter. First, don’t be afraid of splitting up tools; hang mugs above the coffeemaker and stow water glasses in a cabinet. JUNE 22 In the Closet Get your wardrobe Instagram-worthy with Dunham-approved advice.…

Jens Langkjaer PROVENANCE: Copenhagen, DK NOW: London PROFESSION: Photographer BONA FIDES: Work has appeared in Interview Russia, ELLE UK, Rika Magazine, Dansk THIS MONTH: “Hit Maker” (page 220) INSPIRATION: “ShowStudio.com has been posting interviews with Alexander McQueen from when he was working with Nick Knight, who I used to assist. Those two artists collaborating is so inspiring to me.” ON REPEAT: “All of Stanley Kubrick’s movies. He did so many different kinds of movies: future, horror, lowbudget.... He wanted to explore. And you could have seen them 15 years ago and watch them again today and they’re just as good. Like The Shining : I remember watching that when I was a child, and now, as a grown-up, it has so many more layers of emotion.” LISTENING: “I just saw…

The fashion industry has been in a state of flux for some time, searching for inspiration in places obvious (’80s rocker chicks) and less so (normcore anonymity). But few of these attempts at doing something new—many of which felt halfhearted at best—caught fire at the retail level, perhaps because many of the clothes themselves simply lacked the must-have characteristics that compel most women to fork over their credit cards. But this time around, designers from New York to London, Milan to Paris, delved deep into the ’70s and ’90s, two decades rich with ideas, and came up with a host of winning shapes: cropped pants, high-neck blouses, midi- and maxidresses, trim pantsuits, and an endless parade of coats of every ilk. That they did so with true originality was the…

Not since Ferris Bueller has there been a high schooler more keen on raging against the machine than Me and Earl and the Dying Girl’s Greg Gaines. But instead of floats and Ferraris, aspiring filmmaker Greg, played by 23-year-old Thomas Mann with the discomfort of someone who grew six inches over the summer, navigates cafeteria politics with a wry sense of humor and practiced emotional indifference. That is, of course, until his mom makes him befriend Rachel (Olivia Cooke), a Winona-esque classmate with cancer who doesn’t so much force her way in as jolt him out of autopilot, toward an all-toofamiliar realization: You can’t play hooky from the real world. “I wasn’t an outcast,” says Mann, who relocated from Plano, Texas, to Los Angeles halfway through junior year (later finishing…

[MOVIES] STRAIGHT OUTTA SOUTH CENTRAL In Dope, a coming-of-age tale narrated by coproducer Forest Whitaker, the charismatic Shameik Moore shines as a geek who must pursue his scholastic promise past the formidable obstruction of high school thugs, big-time drug racketeers, and highly distracting girls (hello, Zoë Kravitz) while making sweet music with two bandmates, including the marvelously gifted Kiersey Clemons (Transparent). THE STOLEN SPRING Alicia Vikander leaves it all onscreen, devastatingly and with convincing authority, in Testament of Youth, based on the epoch-defining memoir by Oxonian Vera Brittain. As thoroughly as any film may ever be able to, it shows how Europe, poised on the promise of modernity, threw it all away on World War I and left the likes of our heroine to clean up the mess. HIDING IN…

[BOOKS] MOMMY DEAREST In her gregarious, soul-baring memoir, Bastards (w.w. Norton), mary anna King relates how she grew up poor in New Jersey, bearing witness as her five younger sisters were adopted out at birth. At age six, she and her older brother were sent to live with their Oklahoma grandparents. Until reuniting with her lost siblings as a young adult, King was “never home and never not-home, always some in-between place.” DADDY DEAREST “I had to say this, my truth. This book is my coming out as a mulatto,” mat Johnson has said about his novel Loving Day (Spiegel & Grau). Back home in Philadelphia, down-and-out warren Duffy, who is mixed-race, discovers he has an activist teenage daughter who doesn’t know she’s biracial. A tenaciously observed, triumphantly entertaining father/daughter…

When Benjamin Franklin first proposed a proto version of Daylight Saving Time, he was thinking of conserving candles—not burning the candle at both ends. Yet for many of us, the advent of summertime means that the season of alfresco fun has begun: barbecues, beach parties, and indulgently long days sweating it out at music festivals. And while all the solar exposure we’re racking up dancing to Solange should make increased sunscreen diligence a given, our makeup, too, might be due a rethink. “Sunlight makes everything look more pronounced,” says Smashbox global pro lead artist Lori Taylor Davis. “It’s like being in a spotlight.” Pores are more noticeable, fine lines become high def, and colors—because hues read most true in full-spectrum light—appear ultravivid. Thick foundation is especially evident, as are any…

PROUD OWNERS Big or small, utilitarian or decorative, scarred or unblemished, it’s about embracing what you’ve got. Herewith, five stories of breasts by the people who know them best 1 I Look Better Naked Never a sound sleeper and prone to overheating, I often wake in the morning to find that I’ve stripped myself bare overnight. There’s a full-length mirror across from my bed, and on summer days I’ll sit up, catch my reflection, and pause. In this barely conscious state, my gaze is noncritical, my body sleep-warm, and Renoir’s Nude in the Sunlight crosses my mind. If you haven’t guessed, it’s my breasts I’m admiring; they’re large and round and, rightly or wrongly, capture some kind of cultural ideal. The adjectives employed by the guys who’ve come into contact…

A few years ago, I was diagnosed with stage I breast cancer. At the age of 37, and with three daughters under the age of five, I chose aggressive treatment: bilateral mastectomy and six months of chemotherapy. The night before my surgery, I said good-bye to my breasts. They had fed my three sweet babies and brought me memorable pleasure. It never occurred to me to say good-bye to my nipples. I was reconstructed by a plastic surgeon, a dashing young doctor who worked for a one-stop powerhouse medical facility where well-insured patients are shuffled briskly from one expert to another. I was a scared and uninformed patient entering a process where I’d select the size and shape of my permanent new breasts. I think we discussed cup size—I’d been…

Breast pumps are unwieldy. They’re loud. And thanks to the Afordable Care Act, they’re covered by most insurers—but that doesn’t make them easier to use. “We’ve seen six versions of the iPhone, but the breast pump has hardly changed in 150 years,” says Tal Achituv, a Boston-area designer who last fall participated in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s “Make the Breast Pump Not Suck” hackathon. The pumping world seems ripe for innovation, as breast milk seems destined to be in ever greater demand. We’ve long known that people who were breastfed have higher IQ scores, and new studies show higher educational levels and earnings among those breastfed for a year compared to those who breastfed for a month or less. But breast milk is also being researched for its potential…

TIP DON’T FEEL THAT YOU HAVE TO SHELL OUT BIG BUCKS ON A GIFT… “You probably don’t want to spend more than $125 on a friend’s gift, unless they’re a really good friend; $100 to $125 is totally appropriate.” MOLLY GUY TIP …BUT DON’T PROCRASTINATE ON GETTING ONE “Just get the f--king gift. Get it within 10 days. Otherwise, it sits on your to-do list.” MOLLY GUY “Usually, we say you have three months after the wedding to get the gift. But also: better late than never.” LIZZIE POST…

48 (...and 73% of males) Percentage of female wedding guests who say they’ve hooked up with a fellow guest MOST POPULAR MONTH TO GET MARRIED: JUNE. (SECOND MOST POPULAR: OCTOBER.) 142 Average number of guests at a wedding 7% increase in spending on cocktail hour, up from 2010 20% Weddings where a friend or family member of the couple serves as the officiant (Sources: The Knot’s 2014 Real Weddings Study, Brides’ 2014 American Wedding Study, and a survey by WhatsYourPrice.com)…

UNIVERSAL DESIGN DEAR E. JEAN: How can things just go “poof”? The guy I fell for, not just any guy— the guy—met someone else and my heart broke into tiny pieces. I’ve tried so hard to move on, but it’s as if the universe does not want me to let go of him. It seems to be sending signs everywhere, reminding me of him—of us. Does this mean we are destined to be together? Is the universe telling me something? —I Want to Believe! BELIEVE, MY EARTH GIRL: As a woman who has traveled 72 times around the sun and who is, at this very moment, drinking a Kir Royale and joyriding across the cosmos at 1.3 million mph (the speed at which our galaxy is flying), I am infinitely…

Since the age of 14, I have littered—excuse me, adorned—the Internet with Taylor Swift analyses. I was first struck by how much more agency she had over her songwriting and public image than other popular artists tapping into my demo, and by how it felt to get permission from a girl wielding a guitar to shamelessly express one’s emotions, despite how often doing so can get you called “crazy” (that sexist euphemism for “feminine”). With the release of her fourth album, Red, in 2012 and a handful of highly publicized romances, Taylor was criticized by the press and other entertainers for such sinful acts as dating people and writing songs about it, gaining a reputation as boy-crazy and love-ridden. But I’d always felt that the men in her songs were…

THIS MONTH FOR GEMINI: (MAY 21–JUNE 21) The 2nd’s full moon will have you focused on setting up a long-term alliance in either romance or business. However, with Mercury, your ruler, opposed to Saturn and retrograde until the 11th, you’ll want to proceed slowly. In the meantime, travel would be heavenly around the 5th, and you can look forward to solid progress on personal or professional goals at the 16th’s new moon in Gemini. Indeed, this is your annual new-moon gift certificate—cash it in any way you please! If that involves perfecting strategies that you’ve already built, do so knowing that it’s an opportune time thanks to Neptune, governor of your house of fame and honor, retrograding from the 12th to November 18th. Saturn also retrogrades in your house of…

It’s hard to believe that it’s been more than 30 years since the soulful Scottish singer with the steel pipes first served up “Sweet dreams are made of this / Who am I to disagree?” But as much as those lyrics, her haunted delivery, and the hit song’s fabulously frantic bridge are an indelible part of music history, Annie Lennox, now 60, claims she’s never had a good read on her audience. “It’s always so random, so subjective, how people identify with you,” she says. “I cannot gauge what people will like.” For insights into the sounds that influenced her career, backstage beauty rituals, and that epic Grammy duet—“I hadn’t even heard of Hozier, because I live under a rock,” she says— visit ELLE.com/Lennox now. ONE-HIT WONDERS Some products require…

New Orleans is a place where, in any corner bar on any given night, there is some amazing band you’ve never heard of blasting through the walls, or a singer with pipes like Ariana Grande’s who’s old enough to have experienced some of the blues she’s singing about. (No disrespect to Ariana! The girl can sing! Can’t wait for her next chapter.) I flew down there recently, and when I got off the plane, I went straight to see a Tennessee Williams play (Suddenly Last Summer, set in Nola’s famed Garden District), then took a Pearl River eco swamp tour (led by Brian, an utterly charming and witty guide who pointed out not only the several alligators just waiting for someone to fall off the boat but also the feral…

Over 1.5 million of Philippe Starck’s iconic Kartell Louis XV Ghost chairs have been sold since their 2002 debut.…

A few years ago, Reese Witherspoon was shooting a movie in Memphis, Tennessee, when she noticed that her home state had undergone an unmistakable transformation. There were hip restaurants and a booming multigenre music scene, and the residents had begun to resemble the sort of stylish crowd more often associated with the coasts. “I just saw these people who were very fashionable,” Witherspoon says. “There was this sense of regionalism, but also, people were leaving New York and L.A. and moving back home.” With the exception of Billy Reid, who had built a thriving business by injecting a genteel Louisiana cool into menswear, few designers were tapping into an authentically Southern look. “There’s a lot of people showing you a northeastern lifestyle, but being from the South is its own…

“Looking back, it all seems pretty planned out,” says 22-year-old singersongwriter Tori Kelly in anticipation of her first full-length album, this month’s Unbreakable Smile, an exuberant pop compilation that positions Kelly and her remark able voice at the top of the tenaciously talented totem pole. “But in the moment, it was all about one step at a time.” While a slow-simmer strategy has at times left fans and industry players wondering if she’d ever have her big bang in music, her first Billboard Hot 100 hit, the urban-pop anthem “Nobody Love,” started burning up the radio waves, and fans like Sam Smith gushed: “I’ve never reacted physically to a singer like that before in my life. Her vocal ability is unbelievable.” It’s become evident Kelly knows what she’s doing. “I…

[FICTION] Lisa Glatt started out as a poet, then turned to narrative writing—she published her well-received novel, A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That, in 2004. But while poetry doesn’t get categorized as fact or fiction, with narrative we are almost obsessed with parsing the literal from the invented, vagaries of memory or differences of perception be damned. So it’s a fraught endeavor, Glatt knows, to be writing in her new novel, The Nakeds, about events that are at moments quite close to the truth. The book begins in Los Angeles, in the 1970s, with a horrible car crash. Hannah, a young girl on her way to school just after witnessing her parents’ marriage fall apart (her mother has discovered her father’s affair), is hit by a car, loses her…

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Morning Glory “I’m definitely a tea girl— PG Tips. I could drink it all day long. As for breakfast, Gavin and I once traveled to Morocco and stayed in this little riad. They would make these pancakes that were almost like crepes, but drizzled in honey. I fantasize about them, about having the children there, eating those pancakes surrounded by the trees and chameleons and other crazy-cool animals.” Dream Getaway “You wish you could just fly to Hawaii, but Gavin and I try to do anything we can with the kids around L.A.—visiting the La Brea Tar Pits, going to Magic Mountain. Anything that lets them have a good life, that’s what we try to do.” Face Time “My daily routine is simple. I use sunscreen because I’m quite fair,…

WITHOUT A BRA, YOU’RE DOOMED TO FALL TRU-ISH Changes in skin, connective tissue called Cooper’s ligaments (akin to an internal bra), or the actual soft tissue in the breast can cause drooping, says Manhattan plastic surgeon Adam Kolker, MD. The support of a bra helps somewhat, but genetics can trump Playtex. “Is sagging inevitable?” Kolker says. “It may well be.” EXERCISE IS THE ENEMY OF PERKY BREASTS ONLY IN EXTREME CASES “If someone marathontrains with no bra, there is a gravitational effect,” Kolker says. Plus, when the body mass index of hard-core athletes—or any woman, for that matter—drops below 20, the fat in their glands dissipates, deflating the breast’s “stuffing.” IF YOUR DAUGHTER SCREAMS, “YOU’RE RUINING MY LIFE!” CAN YOU SCREAM BACK, “YOU RUINED MY BOOBS!”? YES, IF YOU WANT…

2.4 MILLION WEDDINGS WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE UNITED STATES THIS YEAR. Chances are, you’ll be invited to one of them. Or two. Or three on the same weekend. We’re here for you, the loyal, brave, weary wedding guest, with a cheat sheet: what to give the happy couple; how to deliver a memorable toast; what to do with your iPhone during the ceremony—and the one dress you can wear to all of it. PLUS! Expert advice from MOLLY GUY, founder of New York’s Stone Fox Bride, a full-service bridal shop (they do it all, from foral arrangements to bridal gowns) that caters to cool-girl brides, AND LIZZIE POST, 32-yearold great-granddaughter of the legendary etiquette expert and coauthor of the sixth edition of Emily Post’s Wedding Etiquette.…

27 Dresses is a movie, not a wardrobe solution: Presenting one dress by Tibi that can take you from big-city ceremony to backyard nuptials COUNTRY Styling: A loose silhouette lends romantic ease. Accessories: A metallic minaudière brings polished balance to an otherwise bohemian look. Footwear: Flat sandals prove the better option for walking through grass fields. Lattice ties keep it chic. Hair: Easy, tousled hair can withstand an evening breeze. CITY Blazer: A tuxedo blazer creates structure without seeming corporate. Belt: A skinny belt gives an ensemble shape but doesn’t detract from the dress. Accessories: An envelope clutch and simple jewelry make a smart statement. Footwear: Heels are a must. Go bold with a metallic finish. Hair: A soft ponytail finishes off a look without being overdone. TIP DON’T WEAR…

Candace Bushnell wants to murder Car-rie Bradshaw, once and for all—maybe sneak up behind her and shiv her with the stiletto heel of a Manolo. Stand-ing in her kitchen in Litchfield County, Connecticut, both of us tipsy (I arrived bearing a bottle of Dom Pérignon), I bet Bushnell $1,000 that this is what the vast majority of the press will say about her new novel, Killing Monica. “Only 33 per-cent will say that!” she insists loudly. (The first thing anyone notices about Bushnell is that she seems to have been born with-out an “inside voice.”) She’s dead wrong, and I feel comfortable telling her so. I haven’t laid eyes on her since profiling her for this magazine in 2008, but I loved her as soon as I met her. We…

WOME N IN MUSIC 2015 “I’M NOT BORED BY ANY OF IT, SO WHY WOULD I ACT THAT WAY?” —TAYLOR SWIFT CHARLI XCX, SLEATER-KINNEY, TINASHE, AND MORE! THE SEASON’S SEXIEST DENIM TAKE-MEAWAY DRESSES THE RETURN OF FLORENCE WELCH TINASHE THE R&B RENEGADE Tinashe’s guiding philosophy in writing and producing an 18-track debut album: “If you were going to drive home and it was going to take an hour, I wanted it to last that long,” says the Los Angeles– raised 22-year-old. “Because it’s an experience.” Passion, heartache, sex, even just a hard night out—it’s all there on woozy, wild Aquarius, which Billboard called one of the top 10 R&B albums of last year. Whether pleading with her paramour on “Pretend” or calling her club kittens to arms on “All Hands…

On a Tuesday evening in late March, British designer Christopher Kane hosted an opening for his first-ever flagship, masterminded by architect John Pawson and occupying an Edwardian-era building with prime corner placement a stone’s throw from Balenciaga, Marc Jacobs, and Céline on London’s Mount Street. As the starry crowd—Downton Abbey’s Laura Carmichael, Net-a-Porter’s Natalie Massenet, photographer Juergen Teller, and, significantly, Kering CEO François-Henri Pinault and his megawatt wife, Salma Hayek—mingled among Kane’s highoctane wares, the message was unmistakable: The feisty Scot known for his boundary-defying aesthetic has become an indisputable player on the global fashion circuit. Hiring one of the world’s great minimalists to articulate his flagship may seem a surprising choice for such a fearlessly inventive talent, but the move reflects Kane’s brand-building savvy. “I wanted that Pawson pedigree,”…

Judd Apatow’s Trainwreck is the rare romantic comedy where the female characters are as complicated, messy, and unlikable as the men. What a relief. Comedian Amy Schumer (who also wrote the screenplay) stars as a magazine editor angling for a big promotion, and she’s as unapologetic about her ambition as she is about her sexual appetite. When she has a fight with her boyfriend, played by SNL alum Bill Hader, he’s the one who wants to talk about his feelings. We shouldn’t be surprised. Apatow, 47, is a great lover of multidimensional women. He executive-produces Lena Dunham’s Girls. He encouraged Kristen Wiig to write Bridesmaids, which he also produced. And his wife/muse, actress Leslie Mann, has seen some of the most complex roles of her career in the Apatowdirected Knocked…